As it did with Killzone 2, Sony Computer Entertainment America is once again restricting a US demo to pre-orders only, this time with Patapon 2. American PSP owners will need to reserve the game via GameStop or Amazon ... or of course just use the fake European PSN account that they made for the Killzone 2 demo. There's a free "Lordy Hat" in it for you, too.
Sony's insistence on this backwards form of demo distribution still puzzles me. Those unfamiliar with Patapon, or those like me who weren't too keen on the original but would like to see if the sequel is an improvement, cannot try the game. In my case, I certainly won't be buying it if I can't try out. The twisted thing is, this little scheme must logically be working for Sony, if it's doing it again.
Mind you, Sony and logic don't often go together in the same sentence.
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9:00 AM on 03.16.2009 | 
Is this a bit of EU love?
Can't imagine why you didn't like the first one?! (sarcasm) it's odd, but when you get into it, it's brilliant. Who wouldn't love leading a tiny army of pons to war?! Using an addictive, fun rhythm game?!
So yeah, if you've got a PSP and an EU account i highly reccoment dropping by and getting the demo. You can even take your progress from the demo and continue when you get the full game!
Pon Pon Pata Pon mother fuckers!
Seems pretty retarded to me.
Get the Demo from the EU store - you won't regret it. imagine Loco Roco but with a little army.
As for demos, this isn't limited to Sony alone. I believe it has to do with the pervasiveness of Gamestop and its current power as the main retail channel for all games purchases. Gamestop makes most of its money from used games, but that's immediately followed by preorder cash.
There's incredible pressure on ALL the publishers who intend to release to the US market to make nice with Gamestop, and Gamestop wants preorders.
got mine on utorrent, as well as resistance retribution
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Way to go! All we need to do now is find a way to get free PS3 / 360 games and the developers will never get any of our money!
Surely then they will make the best games when they're out of business!
Thank you so much for crippling the PSP software market - who needs new games?!
(if for some strange reason you can BUY "official" games from torrent sites i apologise but i would reasonably assume that you stole those games to play on a pirate-ed PSP)
It's £20 on the PSN FFS. How tight do you need t be?
He could of meant he got the demos by torrenting them. Which is what I plan to do, why go through all that trouble of pre-ordering then not liking the demo and have to go back to the store to cancel the pre-order.
Still, rewarding a pre-order with a demo and barring others from the demo is probably the dumbest thing they could do.
I personally DL all my music via Torrents, but game developers need our money to continue working, musicians don't get enough of our cash so I'd rather not pay the fat cat record companies.
When it comes to games, PSP especially has had massive piracy problems so it pisses me off to think people are still taking the piss out of it. It means I get no new releases to play simply because people are too tight to PAY FOR their games.
Like I say, jump on the EU PS store!!
I still can't put Patapon down, I actually played it last night instead of Killzone or HAWX. I'm playing so much Patapon 2 right now that i can hear the Patapon song everywhere I go!!! It's stuck in my head!!!
Pon Pon Pata Pon.